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| Figure acknowledgements | |
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| A trailer to the book | |
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| An apology | |
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| The problem | |
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| Vision in action | |
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| Illusions | |
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| Damage to the system | |
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| The brain | |
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| The study of vision | |
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| The first steps in seeing | |
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| The eye | |
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| The photoreceptors | |
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| The retinal ganglion cells | |
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| Beyond the eye - the optic nerve | |
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| The lateral geniculate nucleus | |
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| Signalling changes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A problem | |
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| Retinal ganglion cells and receptive fields | |
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| Receptive fields and image processing | |
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| Some effects of retinal processing | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| To the cortex | |
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| The primary visual cortex (aka V1, striate cortex, area 17) | |
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| Orientation selectivity | |
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| Organization of primary visual cortex | |
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| Simple cells | |
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| Complex cells | |
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| Hypercomplex cells | |
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| Trigger features | |
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| Face cells | |
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| The grandmother cell hypothesis | |
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| Beyond V1 - the extrastriate areas | |
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| Spatial vision | |
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| Experiments on humans | |
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| The tilt after-effect | |
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| A neural explanation of the tilt after-effect | |
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| Tilt-specific threshold elevation | |
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| The size after-effect | |
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| Simultaneous tilt and size illusions | |
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| Size-specific threshold elevation | |
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| Contrast sensitivity | |
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| Peripheral vision | |
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| Retinal versus real size | |
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| Some visual illusions explained? | |
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| Colour vision | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is colour, and why would you want to see it? | |
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| The nature of light | |
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| A single-cone system - monochromatic vision | |
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| A two-cone system - dichromatic vision | |
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| A three-cone system - trichromatic vision | |
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| Comparing activity in cones - colour opponency | |
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| Colour-opponent cells | |
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| Two-colour vision systems | |
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| Colour blindness | |
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| Cortical processes in colour vision | |
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| Colour constancy | |
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| Back to the cortex | |
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| Cerebral achromatopsia | |
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| The perception of motion | |
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| Two ways of seeing movement | |
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| A motion detector | |
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| The motion after-effect | |
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| Speed | |
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| Apparent motion | |
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| Motion blindness and area MT (V5) | |
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| How do we tell what moves and what stays still? | |
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| Vection and stability | |
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| Vection and vomit | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The third dimension | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Stereoscopic vision | |
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| The correspondence problem and random dot stereograms | |
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| Physiological mechanisms and disparity | |
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| Stereo-blindness | |
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| Motion parallax | |
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| Pictorial cues | |
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| Size constancy, depth perception, and illusions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The development of vision | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Measuring a baby's vision | |
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| Selective rearing experiments | |
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| Problems of vision | |
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| Putting things right | |
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| Active versus passive vision | |
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| Vision in old age | |
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| Attention and neglect | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Moving attention | |
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| Spot the difference - change blindness | |
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| Objects and space | |
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| Visual search | |
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| Feature integration theory | |
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| Guided search | |
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| Neglect | |
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| The perception of faces | |
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| The face as a special stimulus | |
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| Just how good are we at recognizing faces? | |
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| Feature configurations | |
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| Recognizing individuals | |
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| Physiology of face recognition | |
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| Prosopagnosia | |
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| Delusions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Vision and action | |
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| 'What' and 'where' streams in vision | |
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| Blindsight | |
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| The superior colliculus route | |
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| Balint-Holmes syndrome or optic ataxia | |
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| Visual form agnosia | |
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| Dissociation of perception and action | |
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| Eye movements | |
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| Saccadic suppression | |
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| Eye movements in real tasks | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| How we know it might be so... | |
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| Anatomical techniques | |
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| Recording techniques | |
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| Microstimulation | |
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| Lesioning | |
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| Neuropsychology | |
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| Psychophysics | |
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| Index | |